20 Nov '08 12:59>
Originally posted by robbie carrobieNow robbie dude,
wait i haven't even begun my argument yet, i need to go to work, so it may be some time, suffice to say that beetle has in effect refuted his own assertion that reason and knowledge and science are the handmaidens of morality and virtue, for taking his analogy and examining it, we must ask ourselves who was it that put instinctive wisdom into the lit ...[text shortened]... outside, im tired, its freezing, my work is hard and i have a family to feed - regards Robbie.
as sonhouse, Andrew Hamilton, twhitehead and many other friends may easily show you by means of scientific finds and evidence, the rabbit became a rabbit and the Human became a Human through the process of the evolution.
But, my trustee feer, lend me your ears for a coupla minutes more.
In his own environment the rabbit is "wise" when he remains ever ready to flee, whilst the Human is "wise" when he is able to evaluate constantly the ever arising situations. Why the Human is wise this way?
Because the Human cannot go back in time and avoid his social life. He is for ever in a desperate need for Law and Order, otherwise his environment will collapse and he will become unable to survive out there.
In addition, the Human is Human and the Rabbit is Rabbit, each one in his environment, thus each one armed properly in order to prevail in his environment. This is the reason why the rabbit has fasty legs and longie ears and sharp wet nose whilst the Human is as smart and crafty as the foxiest lass and counting.
So in his environment the rabbit needs not to "reason" the way we Humans are reasoning -although I am dead sure that he uses "reasoning" through his senses and his ability to evaluate the messages he receives through them. For he sees his enemy, he smells his enemy, he hears his enemy, and only then he runs, and he runs asap otherwise he 's dead on the spot. Have you ever seen a rabbit out there? He 's always under red alert, otherwise the hawk will get some delicacies out of him.
So in your opinion the rabbit reacts the way he reacts thanks to his instict, eh? But his instict is out of order if his senses are dull or if he becomes unable to evaluate correctly the messages he receives through them, I reckon. So without his senses, which they are there in order to inform him that soon an interceptor is gonna be after him, the rabbit is dead.
So it seems to me that his instict is the agent which pushes him to run whenever he sees/ smells/ hears strange, unknown or positively dangerous to him existencies. His instict urges him to act asap Without Evaluation whenever something strange is arising, simply because there 's no time to loose if the danger is real. And if the alarm is false, so what, no problem, he 'll stop running when he will Understand that there is no danger at all.
Therefore, thanks to his senses and his "understanding" the rabbit has his instict sharpen in order to prosper and to help his bonnie bunny give birth to many many sweety bunnies, robbie pal.
Nothing holy😵